There were plenty of parties that "acted stupidly" in that case, but they were all the president's cronies. That's one of the few examples where the police weren't morons.
Unless you think that the idea that an officer should, upon deciding that the man he's speaking to really is the owner of a house that someone reported a possible break-in at, and which man is shouting at him to leave the house, leaves the f'ing house.
No, Gates, a Harvard Professor, who did, in fact, break into his own house* decides that the best course of action would be to get all indignant that the serfs in the police department would deign to check upon his well being. Of course, the fact that getting himself arrested would give the African Studies professor some kind of "street cred" if pulled off correctly never entered into this intellectual giant's mind.
*Actually owned by Harvard's Housing Dept. Which makes the whole thing triply dumb because he was apparently too lazy or impatient to call up housing to get an extra key and instead forced his way in, possibly causing damage to Harvard property.
I'm don't want to suggest that gates should be punished for his reprehensible behavior, but I'm sitting here wondering why Harvard is allowing their good name to continue to be tarnished by his ongoing employment as a professor
That's a terrible example. Especially when not two hours drive to the south the police are conducting raids and arresting women for stripping and prostitution despite neither of those activities being illegal in the state and particular circumstances.
Although I don't care to see every liver spot and blemish on Harrison Ford's face, I would much appreciate maximum possible detail in the stunning vistas as he flies over nazi occupied mongolia in a stolen jet-powered dirigible, chased by fifty-foot mechanical monsters lead by Angelina Jolie.
24 fps, however, is jerky. Even with motion blur. It is not "good enough" unless you're half-blind. Arguing that it is "good enough," is not in any way disparaging to my contention that it isn't. It merely reflects your own biological deficiencies. I fully expect to be there eventually (and probably before the technology is in place for me to enjoy:frownyface:) and I hope that my solution won't be to curmudgeonly say, "well I can't see it, so I don't see why anyone else would want to." and instead to get fitted for full wavefront optimized glasses or something.
They're just leaving the market open for someone to swoop in who accepts the modest commissions on helping *a lot* of people getting what they really want/need.
Of course, it's our responsibility as consumers, when we find such a salesman, to make sure they keep getting more business than their contemporaries (unless and until they decide to sacrifice all that good will for a few quick unnecessarily high commission sales.)
Ironically, linux actually does guarantee that. It's just that they underwrite it by giving you the source to do it yourself if they don't get around to it...
that would be deb for debian based distros, and rpm for red hat based distributions, which basically covers like 90% of actually in-use distributions. The rest still have packages, I'm just too lazy to write them all out. There are tools for converting packages from one style to another (not necessarily perfectly, though.)
Yeah, or you can set it so that clicking one of the corners is a right click, too. It's conveniently located in the trackpad settings menu below a heading labeled "one finger."
Linux has the free version of an app store already on most distributions. It's called the repository, and available under various, usually graphical, means with the big vendors. For instance ubuntu/debian calls it synaptic.
The problem is that it has a whole slew of free software of varying levels of quality that really don't fully match the functionality of any commercial software at all. (openoffice is in there, and it does a pretty good job, though. There are always a few gems.)
Now, ubuntu pares down the choices into the add/remove menu, as well, but you're absolutely right that there's nothing like a commercial app store on there.
Side note, and I'm sure you meant to include this: all software updates should go into the distribution provided repository system regardless of whether that software was free or purchased through the app store, so the system updater can centrally handle everything. Users shouldn't have to go hunting around in each package for the check-for-updates menu item (or worse: search web sites manually for updates.)
There's no guarantee that when security vulnerabilities are discovered, an update will be created. Users are on their own
There is no ability to set parental restrictions
Are they talking about Linux or Windows? I thought it was quite clever that they could be referring to either, while implying that linux is the inferior one.
Yeah, because the eyes of aging directors and the average eyes of the audience are crap. Also, motion blur helps.
But it's still distracting. You just learn to ignore it if you don't have the budget to make your own films. "Good enough for most" is all you get, I'm afraid.
650 MB is more than Enough space for "an album"'s worth of music. If you need more quality than a CD offers, consider that you could compress down to 650 from some arbitrarily perfect "master" and do significantly better than the uncompressed CD standard.
1GB flash drives are almost trivially cheap now, and I'm sure mask ROMs could be even cheaper, if anyone bothered to make them in that size. So there's really no reason to expect optical media will continue for very long in the music world. Basically: as soon as they realize they can put a crypto chip on the same IC as the memory controller and have "perfect" DRM and a device that people can jog with, they're going to work hard to phase out optical media.
The problem there is that many of us think that "the entity" could very well be behind the "health care reform" bill. Are we sure that the bill changes the status quo in a meaningfully harmful way for the entity in question?
Now, we do know that one of the entities in question are malpractice lawyers and grandstanders like John Edwards. (two scumbags with almost the same name on the national stage in the same country, who'd have figured...) And that that entity, in fact, is not addressed in the bill.
I rather not test cancer care or major operations in either country but for people that I know that have had operations, none of them had significant waits except for one who was getting an ingrown toe nail removed. Since it posed no risk they told the person that it could take up to a month to get scheduled in. It took two weeks. Considering at that point it was more of a preventative think rather than fixing something infected or painful, I'd say that's no a bad deal.
Uh.. I take it you've never had an ingrown toe nail. I can assure you, that it's not "not painful" and as for the "not infected," it's pretty likely to get infected. Why not take care of it right away? In the US, that wouldn't even warrant an ER visit; they'd just take care of it at an outpatient facility or even the doctors' office - same day.
As to the other socialist programs, don't think we haven't tried. The problem is that they're set up as entitlements, and people grow to depend upon them (at the cost of making their own preparations instead), so they're very difficult to roll back once established; you not only have to get past the public outcry, but there is the moral argument that you've made people dependent so you can't just pull the rug out from under them. You have to make some kind of provisions for the people who've come to depend on the program you're ending.
I don't know how this became about health care, but considering the cost and quality improvements in every other industry that doesn't have governments' thumb on the scales, I think you should rethink your objection to health care as a commodity. Commodities by definition, have the price approach the marginal cost over time.
Heck, even food, which does have a good deal of governmental interference works very well using a commodity model. The poor in the US have a much larger problem with obesity than starvation.
Now, if you can tell us the reason why veterinary medicine is so much cheaper than human medicine for the same procedures and medications, you've got a start for telling us ways to improve the current situation.
If they didn't want to have to follow EU rules then they shouldn't have expanded operations into the EU, and instead elected to merely export products to EU companies.
They did whatever risk/benefit analysis they could, and given the conditions in europe (and frankly, european attitudes seem have been pretty consistent over the past few decades, so european activities should be no surprise to a well-researched company) they decided that the profit was greater to have operations in european countries, and therefore at least in part under european regulatory authority.
In other words, it's their own fault for trying to straddle countries and pick and choose operating styles which were convenient to only one venue (or worse, attempting to operate in some imagined conglomerate venue that favors the company)
They knew the rules going in, and either ignored them or chose to interpret them using definitions that were culturally incorrect.
Corridors and hallways are symptoms of bad design, actually. You put them in places where you don't want to bother figuring out how to arrange the rooms so you don't need them. But they're a waste of space and building materials if there aren't factors built into the design which necessarily require hallways (many same-sized rooms, for instance): They're rooms that have no function other than to connect other rooms.
Now, the place where corridors have a great place is literature where they provide a visual impression of the plot progressing (cribbed from an episode of house of all places).
Nah, If anything, curiosity will get him a few interviews. If the competence story is true, or he can hide any assholish tendencies for long enough to look like he is, he might even be able to upgrade.
That in no way excuses the prison time or high bail. There is much douchebaggery going on here, and the unfortunate part is that it will all be paid for by the citizens of SF in the end.
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The one that didn't free the slaves...
I believe it. Have you seen antidepressant ads? The morose horn section alone is enough to make you want to pack it in.
Actually, my first conclusion was the same as yours. Until I read the police report, that is.
You did read the report, right?
There were plenty of parties that "acted stupidly" in that case, but they were all the president's cronies. That's one of the few examples where the police weren't morons.
Unless you think that the idea that an officer should, upon deciding that the man he's speaking to really is the owner of a house that someone reported a possible break-in at, and which man is shouting at him to leave the house, leaves the f'ing house.
No, Gates, a Harvard Professor, who did, in fact, break into his own house* decides that the best course of action would be to get all indignant that the serfs in the police department would deign to check upon his well being. Of course, the fact that getting himself arrested would give the African Studies professor some kind of "street cred" if pulled off correctly never entered into this intellectual giant's mind.
*Actually owned by Harvard's Housing Dept. Which makes the whole thing triply dumb because he was apparently too lazy or impatient to call up housing to get an extra key and instead forced his way in, possibly causing damage to Harvard property.
I'm don't want to suggest that gates should be punished for his reprehensible behavior, but I'm sitting here wondering why Harvard is allowing their good name to continue to be tarnished by his ongoing employment as a professor
That's a terrible example. Especially when not two hours drive to the south the police are conducting raids and arresting women for stripping and prostitution despite neither of those activities being illegal in the state and particular circumstances.
Although I don't care to see every liver spot and blemish on Harrison Ford's face, I would much appreciate maximum possible detail in the stunning vistas as he flies over nazi occupied mongolia in a stolen jet-powered dirigible, chased by fifty-foot mechanical monsters lead by Angelina Jolie.
24 fps, however, is jerky. Even with motion blur. It is not "good enough" unless you're half-blind. Arguing that it is "good enough," is not in any way disparaging to my contention that it isn't. It merely reflects your own biological deficiencies. I fully expect to be there eventually (and probably before the technology is in place for me to enjoy :frownyface:) and I hope that my solution won't be to curmudgeonly say, "well I can't see it, so I don't see why anyone else would want to." and instead to get fitted for full wavefront optimized glasses or something.
What exactly do you think "bang on the facts" means? It's an argument for jury nullification, that's what.
They're just leaving the market open for someone to swoop in who accepts the modest commissions on helping *a lot* of people getting what they really want/need.
Of course, it's our responsibility as consumers, when we find such a salesman, to make sure they keep getting more business than their contemporaries (unless and until they decide to sacrifice all that good will for a few quick unnecessarily high commission sales.)
Ironically, linux actually does guarantee that. It's just that they underwrite it by giving you the source to do it yourself if they don't get around to it...
that would be deb for debian based distros, and rpm for red hat based distributions, which basically covers like 90% of actually in-use distributions. The rest still have packages, I'm just too lazy to write them all out. There are tools for converting packages from one style to another (not necessarily perfectly, though.)
Yeah, or you can set it so that clicking one of the corners is a right click, too. It's conveniently located in the trackpad settings menu below a heading labeled "one finger."
Linux has the free version of an app store already on most distributions. It's called the repository, and available under various, usually graphical, means with the big vendors. For instance ubuntu/debian calls it synaptic.
The problem is that it has a whole slew of free software of varying levels of quality that really don't fully match the functionality of any commercial software at all. (openoffice is in there, and it does a pretty good job, though. There are always a few gems.)
Now, ubuntu pares down the choices into the add/remove menu, as well, but you're absolutely right that there's nothing like a commercial app store on there.
Side note, and I'm sure you meant to include this: all software updates should go into the distribution provided repository system regardless of whether that software was free or purchased through the app store, so the system updater can centrally handle everything. Users shouldn't have to go hunting around in each package for the check-for-updates menu item (or worse: search web sites manually for updates.)
I liked this one:
Linux is safer than windows
The Real Facts:
Are they talking about Linux or Windows? I thought it was quite clever that they could be referring to either, while implying that linux is the inferior one.
Yeah, because the eyes of aging directors and the average eyes of the audience are crap. Also, motion blur helps.
But it's still distracting. You just learn to ignore it if you don't have the budget to make your own films. "Good enough for most" is all you get, I'm afraid.
650 MB is more than Enough space for "an album"'s worth of music. If you need more quality than a CD offers, consider that you could compress down to 650 from some arbitrarily perfect "master" and do significantly better than the uncompressed CD standard.
1GB flash drives are almost trivially cheap now, and I'm sure mask ROMs could be even cheaper, if anyone bothered to make them in that size. So there's really no reason to expect optical media will continue for very long in the music world. Basically: as soon as they realize they can put a crypto chip on the same IC as the memory controller and have "perfect" DRM and a device that people can jog with, they're going to work hard to phase out optical media.
The problem there is that many of us think that "the entity" could very well be behind the "health care reform" bill. Are we sure that the bill changes the status quo in a meaningfully harmful way for the entity in question?
Now, we do know that one of the entities in question are malpractice lawyers and grandstanders like John Edwards. (two scumbags with almost the same name on the national stage in the same country, who'd have figured...) And that that entity, in fact, is not addressed in the bill.
I rather not test cancer care or major operations in either country but for people that I know that have had operations, none of them had significant waits except for one who was getting an ingrown toe nail removed. Since it posed no risk they told the person that it could take up to a month to get scheduled in. It took two weeks. Considering at that point it was more of a preventative think rather than fixing something infected or painful, I'd say that's no a bad deal.
Uh.. I take it you've never had an ingrown toe nail. I can assure you, that it's not "not painful" and as for the "not infected," it's pretty likely to get infected. Why not take care of it right away? In the US, that wouldn't even warrant an ER visit; they'd just take care of it at an outpatient facility or even the doctors' office - same day.
As to the other socialist programs, don't think we haven't tried. The problem is that they're set up as entitlements, and people grow to depend upon them (at the cost of making their own preparations instead), so they're very difficult to roll back once established; you not only have to get past the public outcry, but there is the moral argument that you've made people dependent so you can't just pull the rug out from under them. You have to make some kind of provisions for the people who've come to depend on the program you're ending.
I don't know how this became about health care, but considering the cost and quality improvements in every other industry that doesn't have governments' thumb on the scales, I think you should rethink your objection to health care as a commodity. Commodities by definition, have the price approach the marginal cost over time.
Heck, even food, which does have a good deal of governmental interference works very well using a commodity model. The poor in the US have a much larger problem with obesity than starvation.
Now, if you can tell us the reason why veterinary medicine is so much cheaper than human medicine for the same procedures and medications, you've got a start for telling us ways to improve the current situation.
If they didn't want to have to follow EU rules then they shouldn't have expanded operations into the EU, and instead elected to merely export products to EU companies.
They did whatever risk/benefit analysis they could, and given the conditions in europe (and frankly, european attitudes seem have been pretty consistent over the past few decades, so european activities should be no surprise to a well-researched company) they decided that the profit was greater to have operations in european countries, and therefore at least in part under european regulatory authority.
In other words, it's their own fault for trying to straddle countries and pick and choose operating styles which were convenient to only one venue (or worse, attempting to operate in some imagined conglomerate venue that favors the company)
They knew the rules going in, and either ignored them or chose to interpret them using definitions that were culturally incorrect.
It's their own fault for trying to do business over there.
Corridors and hallways are symptoms of bad design, actually. You put them in places where you don't want to bother figuring out how to arrange the rooms so you don't need them. But they're a waste of space and building materials if there aren't factors built into the design which necessarily require hallways (many same-sized rooms, for instance): They're rooms that have no function other than to connect other rooms.
Now, the place where corridors have a great place is literature where they provide a visual impression of the plot progressing (cribbed from an episode of house of all places).
Yeah, cable used to be like that, too. Just wait till the rest of us get connected and then we'll all know what it's really like.
So, no light pollution either. Double bonus.
FYI, a lot (most, perhaps, even.) of the activity in antarctica already is astronomy/aeronomy projects, so there is precedent.
Nah, If anything, curiosity will get him a few interviews. If the competence story is true, or he can hide any assholish tendencies for long enough to look like he is, he might even be able to upgrade.
That in no way excuses the prison time or high bail. There is much douchebaggery going on here, and the unfortunate part is that it will all be paid for by the citizens of SF in the end.
Why, what do you think is going to happen in four months?
My intended tone was that the prices are already high enough, without the need for exaggeration.